‘He is wrong’: Pence rebuts Trump claim that he could have overturned election

At a conference in Florida, the former vice-president said that the idea of one person choosing the president was un-American'

Mike Pence, the former US vice president, has issued his strongest rebuke yet of Donald Trump, insisting that his old boss is wrong" to claim that Pence could have overturned the 2020 election.

The unusually blunt criticism suggests that Pence, unswervingly loyal during his four years serving under Trump at the White House, is running out of patience with the ex-president's assault on democracy.